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    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I want this man along with Richard Stallman and the creator of Slackware to be immortal

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Patrick Volkerding. It's amazing he's still managing his own Linux distro after all of these years. And I'm eternal grateful for him refusing to adopt systemd and pulseaudio when they were both not mature and stable enough and most other distros didn't care.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Most users actually have enjoyed both systemd and pulseaudio for many years now. They are both some of the best technology we have in the Linux world.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

    Yes, they are mature and stable now. But they weren't when they were first introduced into Ubuntu, for example.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    pipewire is certainly much better than pulseaudio tho.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    Yeah it's even better, I agree. :)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    [citation needed] on pulseaudio being among the best technology.

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 3 points 9 months ago

    Always a pain, pulsesudio. Pipewire works better in my opinion

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 2 points 9 months ago

    I love everything about Slackware except for the occasional weirdness and the absolute lack of package management from the distro itself (discounting third-party tools)

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Meeh... Stallman, no, but Linus, yes, most definitely. I love his sense of humor to be honest, watch his AMAs from time to time, they're like standup to me 😂.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    My favorite anecdote about Stallman is how some women at MIT kept massive amounts of plants in their office to ward him off.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Lol 🤣, he doesn't like plants? Didn't know that 😂.

    [–] Bondrewd 0 points 9 months ago

    Both. Period.

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Stallman has done more than anyone for free software. Just because you don't like how he talks doesn't take away the talent and the sheer will of the man. Linux should have never entertained snowflakes

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    I'm more opposed to what he eats

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    He has, no doubt there, but he's completely unflexible. The FSF would be better off without him. Other than the GNU tools, there really isn't much else that the FSF has done regarding free software. Like where are they now with the RH debacle. That thing is a dead on court case and they're nowhere to be found.

    I'd hate to think what other projects needed their legal help and they were hiding under or a rock or something.

    Also, one of the main reasons why many projects nowadays are under MIT or BSD licenses is because of Stallman. The lingo he uses is sort of faschist. The only good license is the GPL license, nothing else. That's no way to present something... anything really.

    [–] thesporkeffect 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Stop idolizing people and especially stop idolizing RMS

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    You try achieving what they have achieved then

    [–] thesporkeffect 2 points 9 months ago

    It's possible to recognize technical brilliance while understanding that someone is a deeply flawed human in their personal life. I am appreciative of his contributions to the open source ecosystem while also recognizing there is a cult of personality built around an abusive egomaniac here.

    Separately from RMS, idolizing anyone insulates them from criticism. In my opinion it's elitism and socially unhealthy